Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:41:14 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-961006-SNAP keyboard lockup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961018093945.14906C-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199610171704.LAA18599@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > I do occasionally have keyboard lockups too, but only under X. > > > > > When it locks up, is it possible to run this from a mouse menu button > > or something and see if it fixes it? > > > > echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Make sure this process is run as 'root' or it won't work. (I know only > too well about that problem, and I know have a suid program which does > the above I can call from a menu.) > > > I have the same problem, but it only happens when I xmodmap the > > keyboard to swap my capslock and DEL keys. Before I did this (the > > result of switching keyboards to one which didn't do it in hardware), > > I never had a problem at all. > > I don't use xmodmap at all on my box and I see it *all* the time, at > least once/week. (I switched the CL and DEL keys with a new keymap in > syscons). However, if Jordan is still using his M$ Natural keyboard > then we have something in common. I had this problem and I 'fixed' it by changing from syscons to pcvt. I am *not* using one of those miserable M$ keyboards (we have stacks of them here and I hate them). -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426
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